[Cobra64]

Bush’s fault.

[DYngbld]

I helped build a camp near the volcano that erupted earlier. A friend that lives there says they can see the eruption, and have some concerns. Not a lot of lives in danger, but there are some people living there. Please pray for safety, the Icelanders are great people I have several friends there.

[Bernard Marx]

I don't wish to distress our Icelandic friends but they're living on top of one of the world's most dangerous hot spots. For an idea of what's underneath their feet see this artist's conception: Icelandic Hot Spot

Hawaii and Yellowstone (and several other places on the planet) are also located above hot spots: weak places in the Earth's crust where huge volumes of magma are released periodically to the surface. Hawaii's current eruptions are quite slow and gentle as volcanic eruptions go. People usually have time to escape personal injury even though they may lose property. We hope the Icelandic eruptions follow a similar pattern.

Yellowstone, on the other hand, has a very explosive history, with incredibly violent eruptions about 600,000 years apart. While the time between eruptions is a very rough estimate, the last one was 640,000 years ago. A new supervolcanic eruption at Yellowstone would probably be the end of the U.S.A.

[SunkenCiv]

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